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All about the last news !!Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:51:03 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8Truck driver admits he was “drinking just before” a wreck that flipped his righttp://allviralnews.club/?p=375
http://allviralnews.club/?p=375#respondFri, 04 May 2018 13:50:38 +0000http://allviralnews.club/?p=375A truck driver admitted to police he had been drinking prior to flipping his semi truck in San Antonio late Monday evening.

The accident happened on April 23rd at approximately 11:55 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas.

The San Antonio Police Department says that truck driver David Earl Buskirk was traveling south on Highway 281 near the Josephine exit when he took a curve too fast, causing the semi truck to overturn and skid over 40 feet before coming to a rest in the middle of the highway.

No injuries were sustained in the incident, but police discovered several open containers of alcohol inside the rig at the time of the accident. Buskirk then admitted to officers that he had been drinking just before the crash occurred, reported Fox San Antonio.

The semi truck was hauling 4 wheeler frames at the time of the incident, forcing the closure of Highway 281 to allow crews to unload the heavy frames and tow the wrecked big rig. The highway was reopened at around 4:30 a.m.

Buskirk has been charged with driving while intoxicated- open container. He was taken into custody on a $1,000 bond.

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=3750Trucker killed after driving into trailer that became detached from another semihttp://allviralnews.club/?p=142
http://allviralnews.club/?p=142#respondTue, 23 Jan 2018 22:34:03 +0000http://allviralnews.club/?p=142A truck driver was killed in a tragic accident earlier this week, when he drove into a grain trailer that became detached from another semi truck in the middle of the night.

The incident happened near Bllings, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, January 16th.

Accord to local news source Enid News & Eagle, around 3:37 a.m., 48-year-old Texas truck driver Joel Goodman was traveling west on U.S. 412, when he collided with a grain trailer that was blocking the road.

The grain trailer had disconnected from a 2014 Freightliner truck that had turned onto U.S. 412 from County Round 30. After breaking loose from the truck, the trailer “came to a rest crosswise in the roadway,” the police reports states.

Goodman did not see the black grain trailer in the middle of the rural pitch-black road and drove directly into the center of it. The impact caused him to become pinned inside his severely damaged Freightliner cab for nearly 3 hours.

Goodman was freed from the cab around 6:05 a.m. by local fire crews and was pronounced dead at the scene, suffering what was described as “massive injuries.”

It’s unclear if any charges have been filed. Goodman leaves behind a wife and a young child.

The accident happened on westbound Interstate 10 in Tucson, Arizona near the Avra Valley Road exit at mile marker 242.

According to Tuscon News Now, the fire department received a call about the accident at around 4:30 a.m. When crews arrived, they discovered one of the truck drivers trapped inside his severely damaged cab, and went to work extricating the unidentified trucker.

The trapped trucker sustained major injuries in the crash and was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition. No other injuries were reported.

The exact cause of the crash is still under investigation and no citations have been issued. The identities of the drivers involved have not been released.

A portion of westbound I-10 was closed for several hours as crews worked to clear the wreckage, but has since been reopened.

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=1390Semi overturns after being struck by airborne carhttp://allviralnews.club/?p=136
http://allviralnews.club/?p=136#respondWed, 17 Jan 2018 02:26:30 +0000http://allviralnews.club/?p=136Two people were injured after a car went airborne and torpedoed into a tractor trailer earlier this week.

The incident happened in Pocatello, Idaho, around 10:20 AM on Thursday.

According to local media reports, the car driver, 26-year-old James Scott, was traveling on Interstate 15 and tried to take an on-ramp onto Interstate 86, but left the roadway, barreling through a dirt median before going airborne.

The airborne vehicle then struck a tractor trailer hauling hay, causing it to overturn.

Both the car driver and the trucker, 62-year-old Eddy Chapman, were injured and taken to a nearby hospital. The extent of their injuries haven’t been released.

“This is a good reminder that, you know, the semi-truck here was driving down the road and he didn’t expect a car to come literally flying through the air into the side of his truck,” Idaho State Police trooper Sgt. Andrew Nakashima told reporters.

“So it’s a good idea when you are driving to devote your full attention to the road to get where you are going safely and to always wear your seatbelt, because you never know when things are just going to happen,” he added.

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=1360Portion of 5 Freeway closed after tractor trailer plunges off overpasshttp://allviralnews.club/?p=127
http://allviralnews.club/?p=127#respondFri, 12 Jan 2018 23:39:21 +0000http://allviralnews.club/?p=127A portion of the 5 Freeway in California was shut down on Tuesday after a big rig went over a guardrail and fell off an overpass, crashing to the roadway below.

The accident happened on January 9th at approximately 10 a.m. in the San Fernando Valley area in Los Angeles, California.

According to NBC Los Angeles, the semi truck was traveling along the elevated 5 Freeway, Highway 118 westbound interchange when, for unknown reasons, it lost control, sending the rig over the concrete barrier wall and crashing to the lanes below.

A portion of the 5 Freeway in California was shut down on Tuesday after a big rig went over a guardrail and fell off an overpass, crashing to the roadway below.

The accident happened on January 9th at approximately 10 a.m. in the San Fernando Valley area in Los Angeles, California.

According to NBC Los Angeles, the semi truck was traveling along the elevated 5 Freeway, Highway 118 westbound interchange when, for unknown reasons, it lost control, sending the rig over the concrete barrier wall and crashing to the lanes below.

The driver was taken to a nearby hospital, but his condition is not known, and his identity has not yet been released. No other injuries were reported.

As of 1:00 p.m., the northbound 5 Freeway to the westbound 118 was closed, including the Paxton on ramp. The westbound 118 to the northbound 5 has also been closed.

The roadways are expected to remain closed for an extended period of time.

It happened on Wednesday, August 16th near mile marker 79 at approximately 11 a.m.

The truck was heading west on I-435 when it veered off the road and crashed head-on into a barrier wall, severely damaging the rig and causing it to burst into flames. Overland police say the driver may have had a medical emergency behind the wheel, local KSHB news reported.

“Just saw a pretty bad truck wreck in Kansas City, on the westbound side of I-435 around mile marker 79. Looks like the truck clipped a Jersey wall with his right steer. Ripped the steer axle and right fuel tank off and caught fire. Left about a quarter mile trail of flames. The driver and his dog were both rescued and seemed more or less unhurt. Looks like 435 west will be closed a while, and probably the bridge overhead until they inspect for heat damage.”

The driver reportedly suffered only minor injuries in the crash and refused medical care. His dog also made it out of the wreck alive.

Kansas DOT officials say the westbound lanes of the interstate will be closed until at least 10 a.m. on Thursday.

A traffic camera captured the moment of impact on video, which can be seen below.

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=1100Motorist says trucker ‘sacrificed himself’ to save her lifehttp://allviralnews.club/?p=86
http://allviralnews.club/?p=86#respondThu, 04 Jan 2018 23:50:24 +0000http://crazytrucks.club/?p=86A woman credited a truck driver for saving her life, after he decided to swerve and roll his big rig in order to avoid hitting her vehicle.

It happened on Friday, September 15th in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.

According to News On 6, the tractor trailer was traveling on State Highway 351, otherwise known as the Muskogee Turnpike, when it swerved to avoid slamming into the back of her sedan. The sudden swerve caused the tractor trailer to overturn and land partially in a roadside ditch.

A woman credited a truck driver for saving her life, after he decided to swerve and roll his big rig in order to avoid hitting her vehicle.

It happened on Friday, September 15th in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.

According to News On 6, the tractor trailer was traveling on State Highway 351, otherwise known as the Muskogee Turnpike, when it swerved to avoid slamming into the back of her sedan. The sudden swerve caused the tractor trailer to overturn and land partially in a roadside ditch.

Several motorists rushed to the injured driver’s aid. They pulled him from the overturned rig while each of them took turns stabilizing his neck.

“My mom told him, you know, ‘you need to stay calm,’” said Terrell Daniel, an 18-year-old who rushed in to help the trucker along with her mother, an off-duty paramedic.

Daniel says she kept the trucker talking to keep him awake while paramedics arrived.

A woman credited a truck driver for saving her life, after he decided to swerve and roll his big rig in order to avoid hitting her vehicle.

It happened on Friday, September 15th in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.

According to News On 6, the tractor trailer was traveling on State Highway 351, otherwise known as the Muskogee Turnpike, when it swerved to avoid slamming into the back of her sedan. The sudden swerve caused the tractor trailer to overturn and land partially in a roadside ditch.

Several motorists rushed to the injured driver’s aid. They pulled him from the overturned rig while each of them took turns stabilizing his neck.

“My mom told him, you know, ‘you need to stay calm,’” said Terrell Daniel, an 18-year-old who rushed in to help the trucker along with her mother, an off-duty paramedic.

Daniel says she kept the trucker talking to keep him awake while paramedics arrived.

“We were talking about his wife in Illinois and he was talking about how pretty she was and everything,” said Daniel.

Moments later, a mother and her young son approached the trucker. The mother explained that the trucker had saved both her and her son’s lives by swerving off the road to avoid slamming into the back of their car.

“You’d have to be there to understand how emotional it was for this woman to come up and with tears in her eyes, and say, ‘You saved me and my son’s life today. If it wasn’t for you sacrificing yourself . . . you saved us,” Daniel recalled.

Before he was taken to the hospital, the trucker requested each Good Samaritan’s contact information, because he wanted to thank each of them for staying by his side.

A semi truck lost control in Florida on Friday morning, veering across a median and into oncoming traffic, causing a wreck with three other tractor trailer.

The accident occurred on December 29th at approximately 5:30 A.M. in Weston, Florida.

According to the Florida highway Patrol, a semi truck was traveling south on US Highway 27 when the driver lost control for unknown reasons, sending the rig veering through the median and into the northbound lanes of US 27. A tanker truck traveling on the northbound side of the highway then swerved to avoid the wayward semi truck, causing the tanker to overturn, landing in the median and rupturing the tank, spilling oil across the roadway. Two more semi trucks then collided with the trailer of the out-of-control semi truck.

Miraculously, none of the unidentified truck drivers were injured in the major accident, but US 27 was shut down in both directions north of Interstate 75 for several hours as crews worked to clear the wreckage, reported CBS Miami.

“We had a semi tractor-trailer heading southbound on U.S. 27 when, for some reason, still under investigation, the driver lost control and came across the median into the northbound lanes,” said Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Alvaro Feola.

“We had another tractor-trailer that was unable to avoid and braked and turned to the left and overturned in the median. That’s the tanker you see up there with the fuel leak… Once the tanker overturned we had two more tractor trailers that were traveling northbound collided with a trailer of the truck that was heading southbound,” Feola continued.

A foam blanket was used to contain any flammable vapors and the fuel from the tanker truck had to be transferred to another vehicle before the rig could be taken away. All 4 trucks have since been righted, the crash site cleared, and the road reopened.

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=740Semi truck overturns after colliding with car that was left in the middle of the highwayhttp://allviralnews.club/?p=68
http://allviralnews.club/?p=68#respondSat, 30 Dec 2017 00:04:56 +0000http://crazytrucks.club/?p=68A tractor overturned on Wednesday morning after colliding with a car that was left in the middle of the highway, closing a portion of Highway 59 north in Houston.

The accident happened on December 27th at approximately 3:00 a.m. in Houston, Texas.

According to ABC 13, a car was traveling north on Highway 59 at Lee Road when it spun out in wet conditions. The driver then exited the car to find help, leaving the vehicle in a moving lane of traffic. An oncoming semi truck hauling bleach then struck the back of the stopped car and overturned.

Neither driver was injured in the accident. A heavy duty wrecker had to be called to right the overturned big rig.

As of 10 a.m., three left lanes of Highway 59 north at Lee Road were shut down as crews worked to clear the debris and mop up the small amount of bleach and oil spilled in the crash.

Update: after more than 6 hours, this overturned semi is back upright!! Now being removed from Eastex Frwy North, traffic being diverted to feeder as crews clean up. All lanes to be back open shortly. #khou11pic.twitter.com/wQGSmfa7Lw

]]>http://allviralnews.club/?feed=rss2&p=680A Week in the Life of a Working Online MBA Studenthttp://allviralnews.club/?p=36
http://allviralnews.club/?p=36#respondMon, 25 Dec 2017 17:07:15 +0000http://bad-drivers.club/?p=36By day, Quinn Woodard Jr. is an electrical engineer at Chevron Corp. By night, he’s an online student pursuing his MBA at the Indiana University—Bloomington Kelley School of Business, hoping to accelerate his career and develop new skills.
The Bakersfield, California, resident usually wakes around 5 or 5:30 a.m. and prepares to head to the office or drive to the site he’s assigned that day. Woodard doesn’t have much time to study during the morning or afternoon – that’s typically reserved for after work a few evenings each week.
When he returns home, Woodard might attend a live class session through videoconferencing, work on group projects virtually with classmates or complete other assignments.
“I go pretty late sometimes, just depending on when things are due,” says the 28-year-old, who also plans to earn a master’s in entrepreneurship and innovation through a dual degree program at Kelley. “And then I kind of recycle for the rest of the week and plan out what I have to do.”
Currently juggling two classes, Woodard devotes several hours on weekends to catching up on reading.
For online MBA students, juggling a full-time job and an education is typical given the flexibility of online education, experts say. Many select this route to either move up in their field or change careers.
William Christiansen, MBA program director and finance chair at Florida State University, which offers an online program, says because online MBA students come from various backgrounds, including business, their familiarity with different course subjects varies. That influences how much time they devote each week to classes.
“Time management is the key to success with this,” says Tara Lall, an online MBA student at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. “And I think that looks very different for everybody.”
Regardless, prospective online students shouldn’t expect a light course load. Sherry Dunbar, an online MBA student at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business and a senior director of global scientific affairs at the biotechnology engineering company Luminex Corp, spends at least 20 hours a week on her program, she says.
Many online MBA students say they adhere to strict weekly calendars – especially if they travel for work, as many do. Take 35-year-old Diana Sharpe, an online MBA student at FSU. As a business development manager for L’Oreal, Sharpe often meets customers over a 180-mile span from morning through dinnertime.
Enrolled in one course this semester, Sharpe typically blocks off a night or two each week to study at the local library or in her hotel, she says – plus at least half a day most weekends, depending on her workload. She also sections off time to spend with her three-year-old daughter.

“I could easily be dropping the ball on any one – either family, or coursework, or work,” she says. “But when I dedicate specific hours to each, I find it just much more manageable and easier to be 100 percent dedicated to what I’m doing at the time.”

That’s simpler to do in certain situations than others, online students say. Lall, the USC student, says that by juggling her education with a full-time job in applications marketing, she didn’t have much time to exercise – so she purchased a stationary bike desk to use while watching recorded lectures.
Whether an online MBA program requires students to virtually attend classes at predesignated times varies with the program, experts say – something to consider when looking into an option’s flexibility.
Sharpe, for instance, transferred from an online program that had such requirements, to FSU, which was more self-paced and worked better for her schedule, she says.
Despite their busy lives, many online MBA students still find time to network with classmates – a crucial step to build a business career. Lauren Crawley, an online student pursuing an MBA and a master’s in business analytics in a dual degree program at Kelley, says some online student groups hold regular networking events; one geared toward women in business, for example, is hosting a virtual happy hour.
“It’s just an integrated, regular part of daily life,” the 30-year-old says of networking.
Many programs also have in-person requirements or opportunities to travel – another factor a prospective student should consider, experts say. Woodard, the Kelley student, studied business in Cuba.
Dunbar, the Maryland student, says she used vacation time at work to attend a three-day residency on campus. Students participate in community-building activities and complete an introductory course.
She also says what she learns each week in class is almost instantly applicable to her job, and vice versa.
“It’s kind of uncanny that something will come up in a meeting at work, and then we end up discussing that in class the next night,” she says.
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